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Hello,
Could someone explain to me what are the differences between Deployment and Automation?
In what cases do you use one or the other?
Thank :pray:

Those terms are a bit overloaded. There isn’t really any way to compare them as they are orthogonal concepts / tools.

Take a look at the image here: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/pulumi-cloud/deployments/>

“Cloud Platform Automation” is the entire thing. The right most arrow shows which part is the “Pulumi Deployments Platform”. “Remote Automation API” is a way to trigger a deployment programatically.

The “Automation API” (<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/using-pulumi/automation-api/>) is an alternative to the CLI for when you need programmatic control. You can use it with any backend not just Pulumi Cloud.